physics

Meanings

Noun

• The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
• The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied scientifically.
• Plural of physic

Verb

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of physic

Related

Opposite words

• nonphysics

Narrower meaning words

• aerophysics
• astrophysics
• attophysics
• biophysics
• cartoon physics
• chemical physics
• classical physics
• econophysics
• ecophysics
• gastrophysics
• geophysics
• heliophysics
• hyperphysics
• macrophysics
• metaphysics
• microphysics
• modern physics
• neurophysics
• nuclear physics
• optics
• particle physics
• petrophysics
• photophysics
• physical chemistry
• psychophysics
• quantum physics
• radiation physics
• radiophysics
• soil physics
• spacetime physics
• tectonophysics
• theoretical physics
• thermodynamics

Origin

• 1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike ("natural science, art of healing"), from Latin physica ("study of nature"), from Ancient Greek φυσική, feminine singular of φυσικός, from Ancient Greek φύσις ("origin; nature, property"), from Ancient Greek φύω ("produce; bear; grow"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ("to appear, become, rise up").